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I read part of those prices and shit my pants -and then, to top it off, I realized after shitting my pants, that I didn't have any toilet paper - so, I went out to the car to drive to the store and get some and my muffler fell off ---go figure ---

I live across the lake from Evian, France. I think the water shipped around the world really does come from there, by the way. Though it's owned by Nestle if you look at the fine print. Biggest food company in the world and not so eco friendly as we know. If you live in or around Evian, you get it for free cause it runs out of a public fountain where you can fill up all you want.

I think the movement against bottled water is great. What a colossal ecological waste, plastic, shipping it, all those wasted bottles etc. etc. Most places have pretty good tap water and it tastes great and its fresh.

Switzerland has a lot of water, it runs non-stop out of fountains in many towns and you can drink it.

If I buy bottled water for some reason I try to get it from the most local bottling company. At least it hasn't wasted tons of energy shipping it.

The Swiss post has a side business - they'll refill your ink cartridges for cheap. Also, people should buy it generic, online.

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“From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need” 1875 K Marx

There's other good bubbly from non-champagne regions in France for only 10 bucks. Totally delicious. So I guess you can have 2 buck bottles of coke or a bottle of champagne for 2x or 3x the price. Funny.

Beer is cheap. Great store brands for 50 cents to a dollar - 50cl cans.

Some liquids still seem like a pretty good buy, all things considered.

I think its the carbon footprint that we should also consider. Off season vegetables and fruits shipped around the world. They're often cheap but... Aren't we all paying for that sooner or later when the oil runs out cause we needed strawberries and asparagus all year round?

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“From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need” 1875 K Marx

Milk here is about $2.24 a gallon. And I use a Brita pitcher, which I replace the filter in every two months, and it's $!5 for 3 filters. So, that's the cost of my water. I fill up a water bottle and take it to work with me, so I don't buy plastic water bottles.

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I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.-Clarence Darrow

I will NEVER give up my coffee no matter how expensive it gets. Every morning I have 4, maybe 5 mugs of the good stuff. I may not do the designer clothes anymore but I insist on 'top shelf' coffee that is freshly ground then brewed. Not the flavored stuff... just top of the line Colombian, Brazilian, or Jamaican. Costa Rican is also good.

I will NEVER give up my coffee no matter how expensive it gets. Every morning I have 4, maybe 5 mugs of the good stuff. I may not do the designer clothes anymore but I insist on 'top shelf' coffee that is freshly ground then brewed. Not the flavored stuff... just top of the line Colombian, Brazilian, or Jamaican. Costa Rican is also good.

Dam James shit I'm com min over your house dear, and we can bounce of the walls on a caffeine high all day long it drives poor Bob crazy, he hide the coffee one day just to be EVIL

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Dam James shit I'm com min over your house dear, and we can bounce of the walls on a caffeine high all day long it drives poor Bob crazy, he hide the coffee one day just to be EVIL

I would kill, destroy, and eliminate anything that gets in the way of my morning coffee fix!!! LOL..just kidding.

I did let myself run out of it once (not on purpose) and when I woke up... and I wake up way early most of the time, I had to get in the car and go get some beans from the 24 hour PigglyWiggly. I have this thing about putting evaporated milk in it too. High maintenance coffee drinker here but everything else I usually encounter during my day I can deal with w/o getting too anxious about.

I would kill, destroy, and eliminate anything that gets in the way of my morning coffee fix!!! LOL..just kidding.

I did let myself run out of it once (not on purpose) and when I woke up... and I wake up way early most of the time, I had to get in the car and go get some beans from the 24 hour PigglyWiggly. I have this thing about putting evaporated milk in it too. High maintenance coffee drinker here but everything else I usually encounter during my day I can deal with w/o getting too anxious about.

Oh Bob likes coffee too just like I do, however, my Renal-Doctor tells me to start limiting it, he's right ya know after all it is a diarrectic

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The mini-frig that I keep in the den, which I fill with nothing but Coke, is nearly empty, so I wil be shopping at Dollar Gen tomorrow!! To make sure I have never run out, I have even ignored sheriff warnings and gone out in blizzards searching for coke.

Yup, you are a true junkie

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oh, I only quit cause Ohio was raising the tax ago, and I was too freakin' poor to afford them. If I would ever win the lottery here in SC (of course, that means I'd have to actually play the lottery ), I'd go back to smoking in a flash.

Wasn't it the first President Bush who got into trouble for not knowing how much gas costs? Or, was it a gallon of milk??

I know it isn't popular to say, but when you think all that it takes to get oil out of the ground, shipped, refined, and then shipped to stations (not to mention all the trouble oil causes in the world), then the price of gas doesn't seem that bad. I was just going through pix from 1996 and happened to get a gas station sign in the pic. It said, "$1.76/gal". When you think about how much food, natural gas, electricity, cable, etc has gone up since 1996, $3.55/gal here doesn't sound like that much out of line with everything else. People in Europe pay $5-$6/gal, right?

I've kept my gas and electric bills going back 10 years. 10 years ago, I paid around $120/mth for both electric and gas. Now, in the same home, it is $250/mth. Back then, I could leave all my outdoor Christmas lights on from dusk to dawn. Now, even with most being LED, I have to set them on a 4 hour timer, or the bill will be $400.

I think the movement against bottled water is great. What a colossal ecological waste, plastic, shipping it, all those wasted bottles etc. etc. Most places have pretty good tap water and it tastes great and its fresh.

Truth. I don't buy bottled water unless I have to, and I keep empty bottles in my car to refill at a water fountain whenever I'm out there. Most tap water in the US is pretty good and we have a huge water filter/softener at the side of this house, plus a water filter underneath the sink that goes out to a special faucet next to the regular one. Good enough for me.

Also, I may add, New York City has the best tap water ever. It's clean and cold.

What ever happened to 12oz cokes. What ever happened to portion control in the US.

My theory is that it started when our parents started forcing us to eat everything on our plate - full or not - before we could even leave the table. That spawned a whole generation of overeaters, which in turn created their own. People started demanding more and more on their plates. I pretty much can't go out to a restaurant now without coming home with a doggy bag and that's saying something 'cause I'm a husky guy who eats a bit more than I should. o_O

Michelle Obama should campaign to get some cheap prices back on small portions. I can understand that a huge container adds up to cheaper unit price, but should the huge container itself be cheaper than the small one?

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“From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need” 1875 K Marx

I have at one time, when I 1st moved to ABQ both a Sams Club & Costco membership, but Bob & I only went to them a couple of times, and ended up giving a lot of the stuff to our neighbors, it just wasn't worth it, to buy in bulk like that, kinda a waste of money, our neighbors were very happy to get all this free stuff tho

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The US is full of obese people that won't admit that they're obese, much less that it's their own fault.

I think that obesity is genetic in some people, if you eat-to-live, and not live to eat, then you probably won't be obese but, then again some people are just GLUTTONS and can't STOP misery always likes company.....

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